Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nine-foot channel on the Mo was chosen in preference to the proposed six-foot in order that the system might correspond to that on the Mississippi. Now, with the 12-foot channel already planned for the Mississippi, the P-S crows plunge blindly ahead with their nine-foot ditch for the Missouri...
...falls.*This development, said FPC, would make it possible to cut the region's power costs by one-third to one-half, and perhaps supply cheap power to northwestern Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio. But the U.S. public utility industry is already closing its ranks for a last-ditch fight on any extension of public power. In the end, Congress will have to make the decision. Last week President Truman left no doubt on his views. The President told his press conference, as far as he was concerned, it was a public development...
...touch the ground, of course . . . They'll say he hanged himself, don't you see?" And in two ticks the corpse is dangling from the nail and the horrified murderer is running away through the dark yard, pursued by a polite cry of, "I say! mind that ditch there...
...fulfill this expectation . . . the law seems more & more to be called on ... to pull him out of the ditch, bind up his wounds, set him on his way and pay his hotel bill...
...front pew in St. Paul's Cathedral for special pre-campaign services conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The day's lesson, from St. Luke 6: 39: "And He spake a parable unto them. Can the blind lead the blind? Shall they not both fall into the ditch...